Niles North Robotics Wins Wildstang VEX Robotics Tournament

On December 3, the Niles North Robotics team competed at the 8th annual Wildstang VEX Robotics Competition at Rolling Meadows High School, in Rolling Meadows, IL. North’s 333X team had an outstanding day, as they were crowned the tournament champions, and won the Excellence and Robot Skills awards. Currently, four Niles North teams are qualified to compete at the Illinois State Competition in March 2017 as well as the U.S. Create Competition in April.

Team 333T were tournament finalists and 333B and 333H finished the days as semifinalists.

333X: David Fernandez-Wang, Jordan Greenfield, Rosie Hankes, Abhay Patel and Brendan Ward

333T: Thao-Vien Bui, Jessie Nimz-Johns, Nora Litt, Izzy Londono, Anna Shklover, Valentina Sulaiman, and Dechen Tsechen

333B: Ricky Salameh, Misha Raykhlin, Allison Do and Alan Billano

333H: Peter Andrew, Sam Andrew, Olivia Yoshioka, Jackie Clark, Mercedes Sandu and Vasilis Panaikolaou